Best Free Online Applications

Best Free Online Avatar and Emoji

Bitmoji, build your own avatar by adding all details including your eyes, nose, mouth, ears, face and hair, then save and use it everywhere with your personal emoji creatively made for you, either hi, wow, yes, lol and more. Currently available for Chrome besides Android and iOS mobiles.

Best Free Online Barcode or QR Code Image Generator

Barcoding allows you to create an optical machine-readable barcode image by giving barcode data, encoding type and output file format. This is an example of Gizmo's Freeware encoded in Code 128.

GOQR.ME generates QR codes from any text, url, call number, sms or vCard details, with adjustable sizes and options such as margins, colors and correction code. Its QR-Server supports the API and allows you to send a URL to get a QR Code image such as this example.

Best Free Online Clip Art Library

Openclipart contains more than 30,000 images of clip art that can be used for free for any use. You can check out the most popular clipart of the week, newly added, top 10 downloads and search by category, or even create and upload yours for sharing. See also more choices in this Review.

Picasion creates an animated GIF image file comprises up to 10 frames with optional size and speed adjustments. In just a few minutes, you can then post it to the website or save it to your computer. (Review)

Best Free Online Image Converter and Resizer

FixPicture converts all popular picture file formats and camera raw formats to jpg, png, gif, tiff, bmp or pdf formats, and resizes them by a percentage or a specific pixel value with optional rotation and effects.

Best Free Online Image Cropping and Customizing

CutMyPic, 3 simple steps that allow you to quickly upload a picture, cut and customize it, and mail it to a friend or save it to your computer. Image customizing includes rounding corners and adding a shadow with thickness of your choice.

Best Free Online Image Editor

Pixlr Editor, an excellent set of tools that rival many image editors, including drawing, retouching, cropping, resizing, warping, adding text, basic and advanced lighting and color adjustments, numerous filters and layers with blending. Better still, use Pixlr Express for a quick fix or one-click effects. (Review)

Pixlr-o-matic, adding special effects to your photos is as easy as you count one, two, three—snap a photo from your webcam or select one from your computer, then choose a color filter, a lighting effect and a good frame from the many choices included, and save or share your cool-looking photo with friends.

PicMonkey allows you to crop, rotate, resize or sharpen photos, or adjust their exposures and colors, apply effects, do some touch-ups, add text and symbols, and complete photos with frames and textures. A great photo editor with impressive tools and features.

AnyMaking Photo Editor helps you edit an image easily in a few seconds with a set of tools for you to choose: crop or resize image, flip or rotate, add frame, filters, drop shadow, reflection and round corners.

Best Free Online Image Generator

PhotoFunia, select a template from more than 100 fun effects such as billboards, magazines or stamps, upload your photo and click "Go" to create your masterpiece with auto face recognition technology. You can then save it to your computer or share with your friends and family.

FunPhotoBox generates funny pictures from your photos with useful tools, either photo effects, animations, cards, magazine covers or face in hole, choose one then upload your photo, see the result and save it.

3DPackage, a 3d-box graphic creator—just find some photos on your PC to use for the front and sides of the box shot, upload them and in a couple of seconds you'll have your box ready for download in JPG, GIF or PNG format. (Review)

Says-It.com, create your own funny photos and graphics in seals, badges, posters, tickets and other various signs—simply choose a design, type in some text, change colors or outlines, insert your own image, then click Go to get one.

Cool Text, an easy way to generate cool and impressive text logos or buttons without a lot of design work—choose a style, fill up the form with text and adjust the settings, then click the Render button.

Best Free Online Image Optimizer

Squoosh compresses and optimizes images locally with no additional data sent to the server. It shows changes to the image in real time using a split screen, supports a range of web formats and completes with various options including smoothing, resizing, dithering, color palette reduction, and zooming in and out. (Review)

Optimizilla, upload up to 20 images in one go to shrink them to minimum file sizes suitable for use on websites or sharing with friends. You can preview optimized images and adjust the level of compression before downloading results to your computer.

TinEye, submit an image to discover the source of the image, where it is being used and check out its modified or higher resolution versions if they exist on the web.

RGBStock.com, a good place to search for high quality and royalty-free photos and choose the ones you like to download. Type a keyword to search for the photos or check out what are the most downloaded photos.

Findicons, browse through a large collection of over 300,000 free icons, search them easily by keywords, and choose one in the size and format you want to download to your computer. You can also convert your icons online or upload an icon pack for sharing.

Best Free Online Image Stitcher

Dermandar offers an easy way to stitch a series of your scenic photographs into one picture—just browse for pictures from your folder, then save an equirectangular image of your panorama, or upload and share your 360-degree or wide-angle interactive picture in the gallery.

Best Free Online Photo Collage

FotoJet, make a collage of your photos easily with image and text editing tools and a wide range of high quality templates to choose from, either a modern, classic, art or 3D collage, a Facebook cover or post, or a photo card for your birthday, anniversary and more.

Flickr a popular web service for users to upload their photos, edit and organize their collections and share them with groups and privacy controls. Uploading video is an added feature.

Dropico, an exciting service that allows you to manage and organize your photo collection across social networks, including Facebook, Flickr, Twitter and more, or edit a photo with Pixlr or other editors, all in one place. (Review)

Minus, one of the easiest photo-sharing sites—just drag some photos to the Minus workspace in your browser to upload and you're ready to share your pictures with family, friends and colleagues. It gives you 10 GB of online storage free and allows large files up to 2 GB each. (Review)

Best Free Online Poster / Tiled Printing

Block Posters, create a large-size poster from a small-size image for printing in three simple steps: upload an image, slice it and download the pdf file. You can then print and assemble the pages into a big poster. (Review)

Best Free Online Screen Capture Utility

Nimbus Screenshot captures your whole browser window or selected section with ease. It supports major browsers and completes with an editor for you to resize, crop or touch up screenshots with patterns, text, arrows and lines before saving or sharing with others. (Review)

Kwout, grab a web page and crop an area, post it anywhere or right-click the cropped image to save into your computer. You can resize, add a border or shadow to the image, work easily with a bookmarklet on any browsers with no need to install anything.

Thumbalizr, capture a top screen or full scrolling webpage in seconds—just enter an URL, click thumb it, and download the image in width of your choice. Free sign up for even better quality.

Best Free Online Whiteboard

Board800, create a unique session to write down ideas or draw diagrams freehand like using any traditional whiteboard, save your work to your computer in png format, or share it with your colleagues or people with whom you wish to collaborate. A session is kept for 90 days.

Does anybody know why none of these programs offer a simple import facility for existing data we might have on our Windows machines, such as a comma delimited, tab delimited or other simple file.

In the 21st century we really shouldn't need to re-enter all our existing data at the keyboard to make full use of these online programs. None of the ones listed appear to offer such a capability as far as I can see, including on line database programs I have also found.

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